
Dolus inevitabilis.
The unavoidable trap
Bien qu l’on ayt cent yeux avec l’obeissance
D’autant de serviteurs, si est-ce qu’on s’est veu Link to an image of this page [D8r p63]Par certaine industrie estre souvent deceu,
Et par cela qui a de verité semblance.
Rien n’est si bien caché ny si bien maintenu
Que par fraude ne soit defaict & recogneu.
Argus est vigilant, toutesfois par Mercure
Il est enseveli avec un doux chanter.
Hé! qui est celuy la qui se peut exempter
De l’embusche couverte en fausse couverture?
O combien par sur tout l’amy est à priser
Dont la parfaicte foy ne se veut desguiser!
Mais peu nous en trouvons de pareilles en nostre aage,
Chacun vit pour soy-mesme, & chacun est seduict
Par finesse qui or toute chose conduict.
Argus le gardien fut tué par outrage,
En s’estant endormy dessouz les doux accords
Du Dieu qui par finesse empêcha ses efforts.
Apres fut embelly de sa despouille belle
De l’aiseau de Junon le plumage excellent,
Qui tousjours vers la queuë apparoist esclairant,
Tout ainsi comme un feu qui sans cesse estincelle:
Ainsi pouvons nous voir que d’un glaive outrageux
Procede la clarté d’un Soleil radieux.
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- bovine cattle [47I211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- caduceus (staff with two snakes, attribute of Mercury) [92B58(CADUCEUS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- flute, aulos, tibia [48C7351] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- head held in the hand(s), with elbows leaning on an elevation or on the knees (+ lying) [31A25312(+56)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head turned to the left [31A2421] Search | Browse Iconclass
- herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc. [47I221] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- lying on the back with uplifted upper part of the body [31A2361] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Mercury lulls Argus into sleep by making music [97CC64] Search | Browse Iconclass
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